Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Wondershare Flash Gallery Factory Deluxe is an all-in-one, immensely powerful flash slideshow and web photo gallery creating software that can convert a bunch of pictures into attractive flash slideshows within minutes. The resulting gallery can be embedded on a website, in your blog, social media profile or just shared with family and friends.

The software can create both static and dynamic Flash galleries. Static galleries have fixed number of slides and are saved in the SWF format or as self playing EXE files. Dynamic galleries are saved in XML or HTML formats and are capable of pulling images from a folder and displaying them in a Flash slideshow. Dynamic galleries are very flexible and useful for creating frequently changing web photo albums.

Flash Gallery Factory employs a simple point-and-click approach for creating Flash galleries that requires no coding skills whatsoever. The workflow is organized into 5 steps reflected by the 5 tabs on display on the program’s main window. Selecting a tab displays its contents and its numerous customization settings. It’s possible to jump to and fro between the tabs adjusting and refining your flash gallery until you are ready to publish.

To create a gallery the user loads pictures into a storyboard and then drags them one by one into a timeline. The next step is to choose a template. Flash Gallery Factory offers more than 120 different templates ranging from simple themed image galleries to more flamboyant 3D templates featuring effects such as Carousal, 3D wall, 3D Photo Flow, Cubes Spheres and so on. You can catch a glimpse of some of the templates here.

After you have chosen a template and added your photos, you can add transition effects and image motion effects. There are more than 100 transitions to choose from and about a dozen motion effects including the popular pan, scan and zoom effects.

You can also add cool animations to the slideshow, such as sparkles, snow, bubbles and flying music score symbols. Additionally you can insert different sound effects like crowd applause, animal sounds and laughs. Texts can overlayed over each slideshow.

A good slideshow is never complete without a good background score. Flash Gallery Factory supports that too. There is also a simple music editing tool using which you can trim the beginning and end of the music file, add fade effects, loop the music etc.

You can also add preloaders to your Flash movie, the small indicators that appear while the movie is loading. There are 18 different preloaders available. Flash Gallery Factory allows you to add intro and end credits to your galleries too.

Here is an example Flash gallery made using Wondershare Flash Gallery Factory Deluxe. This demo barely scratches the surface of what is on offer. You can do a lot more with this software. Did I mention you can customize and create your own templates?

The Giveaway

Wondershare Flash Gallery Factory Deluxe is hands down one of the best, and most powerful gallery maker I have ever used. Such a great software doesn’t come free. A single license of the software will set you back by $59.95. But thanks to Wondershare, we have 5 licenses to giveaway.

To join the giveaway all you have to do is subscribe to Instant Fundas RSS feeds or email newsletter. At the end of each article that appears in your feed reader will be a Secret Contest Code. Enter the Contest Code along with your name and email address in the form below and you are in.

The contest ends on August 7. Feel free to share this with your friends.

Wondershare is also offering discounts on any software you buy from them. This you can avail by visiting their Facebook page.